Themed collection Recent Review Articles

The rise of n-type organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs): from materials to applications.

Case studies of minor structural variations highlight the fundamental relationship between structure and function to offer design rules with which to develop the next generation of organic electronic materials.

This article highlights recent developments of an emerging family of nanomaterials: two-dimensional halide perovskites.

Recent advances in combining functional organic polymers with inorganic 2D semiconductors for nanoscale electronics are highlighted.

This paper provides a brief review of recent progress regarding the magnetoresistive effect observed in organic semiconductors.

The development of metal particle-free inks is reviewed, with particular attention on their formulation, patterning and post-processing techniques.

Ferroelectric glass–ceramic materials have been widely used as dielectric materials for energy storage capacitors because of their ultrafast discharge speed, excellent high temperature stability, stable frequency, and environmental friendliness.

Research on developing new donor–acceptor (D–A) substituted 1,8-naphthalimide (NI) based molecular systems is a rapidly growing research are due to their wide-ranging applications in the field of organic photonics and electronics.

Nanoscale local optical activity characterization provides essential information on enhanced chiral optical interactions between molecules and metal nanostructures.

Artificial smart designs inspired by structural and functional features of biological organisms have opened new avenues to develop high-performance flexible tactile sensors and advanced artificial sensory systems.

This work discusses the photophysical pathways in doped quantum dots responsible for generating photons of non-exciton origin and hot electrons.

We provide a broad review of optically responsive materials with potential for in situ monitoring of material state properties in structural polymer-based materials with nanoscale spatial resolution.

Heterogeneous integration of III–V quantum dots on Si substrates for infrared photodetection is reviewed, focusing on direct epitaxial growth and bonding techniques over the last few years.

Recent advancements and outlook in LEDs fabricated from metal halide nanocrystals have been presented in this article.

The present review focuses on recent examples of molecular structures that are capable of establishing self-assemblies both in bulk and in solvents.

This review highlights recent developments concerning stabilization strategies of large (hetero-)acenes and discusses the resulting impact on the aromatic system.

Digital printing of stretchable electronics is reviewed. Multiple technologies and materials, like liquid metals and composites, are addressed.

A comprehensive overview of the current state of the art of chemiresistive sensors based on tunable nanofibril heterojunctions for controlling interfacial charge transfer.

Near-infrared QDs and their applications.

A decade after their first appearance as components of solar cells, perovskites are still at the center of solar research.

Advancement, challenges, and prospects in 2D–nD (where n is 0, 1, 2 or 3) heterostructures for gas sensing applications.

This review presents up-to-date important progress in the field of liquid crystalline blue phase (BP) materials.

This review summarizes recent advancements in various orientation techniques for conjugated polymers for use in high performance organic field effect transistors.

Recent progress of nanostructured tungsten oxide thin film devices is reviewed from optoelectronics and ionics to iontronics with their development trends, challenges, and opportunities analyzed and proposed.

We describe the use of various pinning centres and possible methods of their application. The main focus is given on nanosized pinning centres composed of chemically inert materials and on the bulk type of YBCO/REBCO superconductors.

Plasticized poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) gels belong to a class of electroactive polymers (EAPs), which have the ability to realize bending motion, contractile motion, extended motion and crawling motion under electric stimulation.

The present review focus on the progress and development of NIR absorbing small molecules based on diketopyrrolopyrrole for organic solar cells and photothermal therapy.

We present the recent progress in the synthesis, assembly, and electronic applications of solution-processed 2D semiconductors.

The pentafluorosulfanyl (SF₅) moiety has emerged as a versatile tool for tailoring optoelectronic properties in a wide range of functional materials.

This review describes figures of merit, challenges and strategies during the development of solution-processable electrochromic materials and devices for large-area smart window applications.

This review highlights the important role and recent progress of n-type conjugated polymers in several emerging research directions.

We summarized the experimental investigation of quantum interference in charge transport through various molecular architectures at single-molecule scale.

This article reviews AFM-based mechanical probing methods for ferroelectrics and discusses recent developments and future opportunities in this research area.

This review covers the history, development, and state of the art, of metal oxide-based electronics, with particularly focus of indium-gallium-zinc-oxide.

By engineering the composition, size and surface, all-inorganic perovskites with outstanding performance and stability have been achieved for photovoltaic and detector applications.

The recent progress in fabricating luminescent solar concentrators using green quantum dots was summarized.

Excitons in lead halide perovskites often go unnoticed as minority species, yet they account for almost all of light emission.

The recent developments in charge separation, long-lived charge transfer state formation and charge recombination-induced intersystem crossing are summarized.

The various fabrication methods with growth mechanisms and possible applications of semiconductor 1-D nanostructure arrays are systematically reviewed.

This review paper summarizes the categories, sensing mechanisms, and affecting factors of flexible conductive polymer composite-based stretchable strain sensors.

Critical commentary on and a brief summary of representative F⁻ fluorescent probes, imaging agents and nanosensors based on Si–F chemistry are provided, followed by pointing out the limitations of current systems and possible future directions.

This review gives an overview of the synthesis, photophysical properties, surface characterization/functionalization and some applications of chalcopyrite-type nanocrystals.

Recent work on the use of BODIPY probes in bioimaging/bio-staining, as well as in chemosensing, is reviewed.

Exciplex forming co-hosts have been applied to fabricate high-efficiency organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) due to the merits of bipolarity, 100% exciton harvesting, preferred dipole alignment, and sensitizing effects.

Butyldithiocarbamate acid can dissolve a series of metal oxides; thus, it enables the fabrication of metal chalcogenide thin-film solar cells.

We present a comprehensive review on the recent progress of graphene vdW heterostructure photodetectors and give further perspectives in this emerging field.

This review introduces the recent advance in the construction of MOF-based sensing platforms in chemical sensing and biosensing. In particular, the fabricating strategies of MOF-based luminescent sensors and the sensing mechanisms are reviewed.

Methylamine-induced defect-healing and cationic substitution was reviewed for low defect perovskite films with better crystal quality and high stability.

Dye-sensitized solar cells are photoelectrochemical devices, which are of great interest due to their ease of fabrication and attractive design.

An overview is provided on the surface functionalization of boron-doped diamond thin films and their application as photoelectrodes and photocatalysts.

This review highlights the critical issues and recent advances in developing highly volumetric-efficient and high capacitance MLCCs from the viewpoint of designing dielectric materials.

The recent progress on self-assembled epitaxial nanocomposites on silicon or templated substrates for low cost and large area devices.

The recent progress, challenges and promising future of design and synthesis of inks and device fabrication by inkjet printing are reviewed and discussed.

This review introduces the developments in β-Ga₂O₃ materials growth and solar blind UV photodetectors in the last decade, summarizes their advantages and potential for improvement, and puts forward some suggestions for actual application requirements.

Liquid crystal molecules were automatically aligned by not only morphological anisotropy but also chemical interaction.

The recent progress on the research of photofunctional MOFs based hybrid materials for chemical sensing biomarkers are summarized. Among the lanthanide functionalized MOFs hybrid materials by the author's group the emphasis for this review.

This article highlights recent developments of emerging metal halide perovskite based resistive switching memory devices and artificial synapses.

Historical and recent advances of lanthanide mononuclear complexes, polynuclear clusters, coordination polymers (CPs) and metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) with temperature-dependent luminescence are reviewed for future thermo-sensitive paints.

A critical review of reactive vapor deposition as a tool for conjugated polymer synthesis.

Carbon dots, an emerging class within the carbon allotrope family, have gained significant attention largely due to their versatile and tunable physico-chemical and optical properties.

Hole transporting layer plays a crucial role to realize high efficiency and long lifespan by balancing the charge carrier into the desired recombination zone.

The electrocaloric effect (ECE), which refers to changes in the temperature of a material when an electric field is applied to or removed from the material, is one of the key phenomena of future highly efficient solid-state refrigeration devices.

An overview of the synthesis, optical properties, luminescence mechanism, and optoelectronic applications of CQDs is presented.

The impact of energy transfer processes on the optical profiles of heteroassemblies with quantum dots as a nano-scaffold are highlighted.

Biological systems contain various amazing examples that can display adaptive and active behaviors in response to external stimuli.

Morphology of fullerene assemblies at the few-molecular scale control optoelectronic properties and solar cell parameters at the device scale.

Time-resolved mid-infrared spectroscopy provides new opportunities to probe the structural origins of electronic and transport states in optoelectronic materials.

Platinum(II) binuclear complexes with two metal centers facing each other are reviewed based on their molecular structures, photophysical properties, and applications in light emitting and sensing devices.

Emission mechanisms for OLEDs and their characteristics.

This review discusses the isomeric effect on the charge transport of organic semiconductors experimentally and theoretically.